From: Paul Prescod <paulp@...>
Date: 2001-04-21T18:51:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13966] Re: From Guido, with love... [+ Jython & JRuby]

Conrad Schneiker wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> Well, IMNSHO, it also seems like a very *minor* sort of "deliberate insult",
> bordering on playful ribbing, albeit a little 'bird-brained'. :-) 

I was also going to say that it would be helpful to interpret his
comments with a little charity. Guido is not a political person and none
of his communications are particularly deliberate from a political point
of view. Ruby really does have some Perlisms and (from his point of
view) some Pythonisms and it would be strange for him to talk about a
language that merges Perl and Python WHILE IT IS STILL APRIL without at
least jokingly mentioning Parrot.

I suspect that in the end, the syntax issue will be a major dividing
fault line in the Ruby/Python world. A lot of Python users run to Python
to get away from Perl's syntax. Guido's just stating the truth in his
way.

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